Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-11-02
STILL BLOWING.
rHg WORST GAZE NORFOLK HAS HAD
FOR YEARS
The Streets Submerged and Vessels Tern
from Their Moorings-Narine
Disasters Reported,
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NORFOLK, November /, 1887.
The gale has not yet subsidized, and in
telIigence from the coast is auxlously
looked for. All night the blow con.
tinued from the northwest, and the wind
was higher than at any time since the
gale set in. The tide was again driven
up into the harbor, and on every side
portions of the city were submerged.
Vessels in the harbor were torn from
their anchorage and driven ashore, and
those only held on that got out three or
four anchors. On the north Of the city
all the summer houses, lighthouses, boat
houses, and such like were blown away,
and the devastation among the chimneys.
roofs cutters, fences, shade-trees, and
gardens was largely increased. The
wood and lumber-yards have experienced
considerable loss by the floods, and in
Norfolk county much wood and lumber
was swept away.
No bay steamers left the harbOr last
night, the risk being considered too
great, but all got away to their destina-
tions about 8 o'clock this morning. Old
sea captains declare the storm one OF
the worst ever experienced in this Sec
ton. The Government telegraph-line
from this city to Cape Henry will be re-
paired and in working order by night.
MARINE DISASTERS REPORTED.
A fleet Of oyster vessels are beached
in the Western branch. Three schooners
are reported ashore on Willoughby Spit,
and one on the Midland was driven
ashore last night A wood schooner is
ashore in Pagan creek near Smithtield,
we'll up and submerged IN the marsh.
Five vessels, most of them schooners,
are reported ashore between Cape Henry
and Dam Neck life-saving station. A
square-rigged vessel is reported ashore
near the mouth of Lynnhaven river.
The schooner Elias Moore, Captain
Falkinburg, from New Haven to Nor
folk, is ashore 200 yards from Ocean
View Hotel. The vessels arc lying
easily and the weather is clearing. The
crews are all right.
The schooner George r. Veceland ar
rived from Bridgeport with foresail,
mainsaiI, and spanker blown away and
leaking. Nothing definite can be heard
from along the coast.
The wharyes on Nansemond river are
all submerged. An unknown sloop was
seen capsized yesterday morning at
Lees wharf, on that river. a part o.
the bridge leading to the pier-head OF
the wharf at Pigs Point, mouth OF the
Nansemond river, has been washed
away by the gale and high tide.
NOTES.
The receipts of cotton yesterday
reached 8. 1856 bales-the largest receipts
of the season.
The Norfolk Lodge of Elks has de
cided to attend in o body the next gene
raj session of the order in Cincinnati IL
June.
During the month OF October there
were forty. eight marriages in Norfblk
sixty in the county, and ten IN Ports
mouth.
William II. Palmer (coloredl, com
handing the second battalion coloreC
volunteers of Virginia, died here to-
night aged forty-one years.
A homicide occurred at Centreville
Norfolk county, yesterday, coloreC
woman being shot and killed. The re
port states that n white citizen had
difficulty with colored man, and the
| former in defending himself used gun
which, in being wrenched from HIM b,
the latter, was discharged, the contents
taking effect in and killing the wife o
the colored man.